With Huffington Post Live

With Rolf Potts, Summer 2012

How did you get started traveling?

When I graduated from college in 1984, I desperately wanted to travel. I wanted to go someplace radically different from what I knew. I wanted to push my limits, develop some understanding of the wider world. This desire goes with wanting to be a writer. Maybe I also felt I had something to prove…(Travel Writers: Peter Chilson)

With the Spokane Spokesman Review – Oct. 2, 2007

For the Spokesman Review online book club regarding story collection Disturbance-Loving Species:

Since the days of “Heart of Darkness” author Joseph Conrad, and maybe even before, writers have talked about visitors to the continent “going African.”

It’s hard to say exactly what that means. As with all other all-inclusive descriptions, definitions probably are linked to the individuals they’re applied to.. (Since the days of “Heart of Darkness” author Joseph Conrad, and maybe even before, writers have talked about visitors to the continent “going African.”